River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-09-29
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD:
WILL OUR SOULS REMEMBER.

FARM AND HOUSEHOLD:
WILL OUR SOULS REMEMBER.
Love, ifdeath proves but dream,
And we seem
Waking ont Of il, TO grow
Dearer TO each other far
Than we are
In this human life below,
win our spirits dimly yeArn,
As they burn
In Inhnity on high,
For each old familiar grace
OF this place
Where We fingered but TO diel
Win our souls remember well
What befell
on that moonlit night In June
Nature swooning into bliss,
And the kiss
That puts heart-beatl into tuner
From Edward Kings Venetian Lover.
BUILDING A BARN.
NV old barn was framed fifty year,
ago. The sill was rotted under thu
doors, but all the other large timber
were sound, and the frame, when lift
ed up on a new sill lying on the base
ment wall, was better than any new
one 1 could have secured. | have
seen too many of these old frames tori
apart and thrown away. Oak timber
could be had almost for the asking
fifty years ago in most of our Eastern
states. Posts and beams of the size
used then can not be had now at any
price. Again, notice the new barn;
generally set farther from the farm
houses. Now. this means a good deal
more walking every day in the year
for people who do not need the exer-
else. There is no sense in hiding a
barn, nor is there any reason in keep
ing it more than half dozen rods from
the house. If barn or barn yard is
an offence to sight or smell it is the
owners fault. Keep stables and out
buildings so clean that they will be fiji
to live in and not SO filthy that it is I'M
pleasant to live in sight of them
+. d. b., DutcheSS County, N. T.,
A SUGGESTION.
/ would suggest to farmers who have
failed to get a stand of grass and will
not have pasture enough for their stock
the coming year, that a field can be
seeded in rye and timothy in September
and make good pasture. Until l tried
this | supposed that the grass would be
greatly damaged in feeding off the rye,
but have found that by little care in
keeping stock off when the land is soft
the grass does not seem to be injured
at all and by the middle of June, when
the rye becomes woody, the grass gives
good pasture. and l have rarely had
pasture, which gave better satisfaction
than rye and grass.-W. +. BrOt0R ia
Country Gentleman.
GARMENTS MADE WATERPROOF.
A writer in an English paper says:
For many years have worn lndia-rub-
Der waterproofs, but will buy no more,
for have learned that good Scotch
tweed can be made entirely impervious
to rain: moreover, l have learned how
to make it so, and the following is the rec
ipe: In bucket of water put half a
pound ofsugar of lead and half pound
of powdered alum; stir this at intervals
until it becomes clear; pour of into an
other bucket and put the garment
and let it be there for twenty
four hours. and then hang it up to dry,
without wringing it. Two of my party,
a lady and gentleman, have worn gar
ments thus treated in the widest
storms of wind and rain, without getting
wet The rain hangs upon the cloth in
globulets. In short. they are really
waterproof. The gentleman afortnight
ago walked nine miles in a storm Of rain
and wind, such as you seldom see in
the South, and when he slipped off his
overcoat his underwear was as dry as
when he put it on.
PRECISION IN DAIRY PRACTICE.
/ can't subscribe to the exact rules
laid down by leading dairy writers.
Such as the exact degree of tempera-
ture for churning. The butter-maker
deals with substances of varying quality.
His work is not strictly mechanical like
many processes in manufacture, so that
he must work strictly by the thermom-
eter or micrometer. The milk of COW
changes every day from the time she
calves until she is dried up. This
change is regular, normal and is in adj
dition to the changes from varying food
or other conditions. In a creamery
where milk from all sorts of cows make a
general average milk of not the highest
quality, a mechanical butter-maker can
usually get uniform product, though
not the very best in quality, and he can
make better butter in alarge dairy than
i'm a small one. But the skillful butter
maker always allows for variations in
his rules to meet changed conditions.
Discretion with him is more than pre-
cision. If he had new milk cows, warm
" housed and properly fed, the temper
AZURE of his cream may be in Winter
lust what il is in Summer. But If some
of the butter fats are burned up in the
the COW to keep her warm in Winter he
will see the need of raising the tempera-
ture. His trained eye and ear, not to
speak of his nose. inform him when de-
yiations from the rule of thumb are
necessary. The best butter-makers are
those that know all the rules and
know when to break them.-Roger,
SUSSEX County. Del.
HOW LONG THEY LIVE.
The elephant lives 100 years and
upward; rhinoceros, 20; camel. 100;
lion, % to 20; tiger, leopard, jaguar,
and hyena lin confnement,) about 25;
beaver, so; deer. 20; wolf, 20; fox, IA
to l6; llama, Is; channels, 25; mon
key and baboon, Is to Is; hare, s; rab-
bit, I, squirrel, 7 swine, %; stag. under50;
horse, 80; ass, 80; sheep, under 10; COW,
20. OK, 80; swan, parrot, and raven,
20; eagle, 100; goose, so: hen and
pigeon, 10 TO 16; hawk, 80 to 40;
crane. "a; blackbird. 10 to II; peacock,
20: pelican. 40 to so; thrush, 8 to 10;
wren. 2 to 8; nightingale, Is; blackcap.
10; linnet, Ia to %; goldlinch, 20 to
to "a; redbreast, 10 to II; skylark, 10
to 50; tiilark, 5 to 6; chaffinch, 20 to "a
starting, 10 to ~; carp, 30 to $50; pike,
so TO 40: salmon, 16; Goldfish, IA to II
COL IN. crooodila 100. tortoise 100 10